Retail Radar: PSP to get EA retro comp

GameStop details 14-game collection of old-school classics, says Electronic Arts is bringing Syndicate, Ultima, Wing Commander, and more to PSP.

Publishers like Capcom, Sega, Midway, Taito, and Namco have been offering retro-themed compilations for years on a variety of platforms. However, the biggest third-party publisher of them all, Electronic Arts, has generally shied away from the practice, other than a few offerings such as the recent Command & Conquer: The First Decade collection.

That might be changing, if a new GameStop product listing is accurate. According to the retailer, Electronic Arts is jumping into the retro trend headfirst with EA Replay for the PSP. Slated for release October 3 with a price tag of $29.99, the compilation will let players relive 14 of the publisher's back-catalog offerings, including fondly remembered hits like Syndicate, Ultima VII: The Black Gate, Road Rash, Wing Commander, and Jungle Strike. Some of the games will support head-to-head multiplayer action, all will be playable in widescreen or normal views, and all of them will allow players to save their games at any time. The site even says it will include unlockable game art.

The full list of games listed for the compilation is included below, along with their first release dates and systems. Given the difficulties inherent in porting a keyboard-and-mouse control scheme to PSP, it is likely that the compilation would feature shrunken-down versions of the games' console versions, so those are the dates and systems given below.

B.O.B.--1993--SNES and Genesis
Budokan--1990--Genesis
Desert Strike--1993--SNES and Genesis
Jungle Strike--1993--SNES and Genesis
Haunting Starring Polterguy--1993--Genesis
Mutant League Football--1993--Genesis
Road Rash--1992--Genesis, later on 3DO
Road Rash II--1993--Genesis
Road Rash III--1995--Genesis
Syndicate--1995--SNES, 3DO, Jaguar
Ultima: The Black Gate--1994--SNES
Virtual Pinball--1993--Genesis
Wing Commander--1993--SNES
Wing Commander: The Secret Missions--1993--SNES

Please note, while retailer listings frequently jump the gun on publishers' product announcements, they should not be taken as final confirmation of a game's existence; nor should the absence of a listing be considered as proof that a game isn't coming to a given platform.

107 Comments

  • LurkingAssasin

    Posted Jun 21, 2007 9:33 pm PT

    ROAD RASH!!!!!!!! YEAH BABY!!!!

  • Uchiha_madara

    Posted Jan 2, 2007 7:59 pm PT

    I love road rash.. my fave

  • Turisman4

    Posted Nov 3, 2006 3:19 pm PT

    Finally, someone put Desert Strike on a Genesis compilation!

  • SuperHadouken

    Posted Sep 15, 2006 7:36 pm PT

    HELL YEAH ROAD RASH AND DESERT STRIKE WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!

  • collinsworth

    Posted Sep 8, 2006 4:13 pm PT

    omfg i was just talking about playing road rash on motogp board. add desert strike, jungle strike, wing commander and virtual pinball and thats unbeatable!!!!! i am buying this

  • Ubersnuber

    Posted Aug 28, 2006 1:44 am PT

    To the Ds fanboys out there:
    dont underestimate the power of classics!
    Im not a handheld fan, but im buying a PSP because of this compilation.
    Road Rash ROXX!!

  • LSUTIGERMAN

    Posted Aug 21, 2006 10:40 pm PT

    Mutant League Hockey would have been much better choice...and I hate hockey.

    Also you can get all these games from any ROM or Emulation site so why would anyone buy this.

  • umbra

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 8:37 am PT

    I hope they do some work to improve the games, though. All the Road Rash games from 1-3 suffered from severe slow down and mega choppy frame rates making it hard to play in many instances. The PSP has plenty of processing power to smooth it over, provided they work on that area in the emulation.

    Of course, from a business point of view that probably won't affect sales, so with low ROI such a decision wouldn't be made.

    Bit of a shame, really, if you can play a better version of the game on a homebrew emulator running on your PSP. Time will tell if this compilation nails it.

    btw, although there are some really good games there, and plenty of gaming hours included, they still could easily include more games.

  • wooooode

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 3:09 pm PT

    With the lack of good games on the PSP these compilations could sell very well.

  • B-bad

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 3:00 pm PT

    Cool collection it maybe worth a look! road rash is cool all three on one umb is awesome! Come on old games can be fun, get a clue if you think otherwise!

  • jammers_182

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 11:49 am PT

    Oh yes! All three road rash games! I'm getting this for sure.

  • Free_Devil_Jam

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 11:24 am PT

    Looking good for the psp these days

  • fluffebunnie

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 9:14 am PT

    Wing Commander owns you. That is all.

    Her lairmate is the Heart of the Tiger!

  • cesarotromundo

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 8:34 am PT

    this is lame! When the heck is that donwload thing with the ps1 titles gonna come out for the psp? I wanna get FF7 and FF8 for the psp and also tomb raider..come on! get the downloads out!

  • AngelCage

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 8:01 am PT

    Digital-Devil says:
    Most of these you can get on ROMS though...or on the Wii as downloads
    ------------------

    Yeah, but:
    #1: You don't have a Wii yet xD
    #2: On the Wii, you will need to PAY for every single retro game too.
    #3: 15++ years old games from SNES and GENESIS on a non-portable next-gen console... i don't know.

    I don't are looking for all the old school games on the Wii or retro games on XBL. In a handled is another history. this compilation on the DS could be great too.

  • Dav_id83

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 7:53 am PT

    I agree with Schillinger why isn't Urban Stike in the EA collection it's like SEGA are releasing one and they haven't included Street Of Rage 1,2 or 3 for that matter. They are putting in Golden Axe but not the S.O.R franchise which is stupid.

    Everyone I know loves the S.O.R games my fav was no.2 instead there putting that stupid Eternal Champions in it. Which was probably the worst ever fighting game created for the Mega Drive. But like the fine print says they could change the line-up at any time before release.

  • Schillinger

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 7:12 am PT

    Why isn't Urban Strike there

  • hemakm3

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 7:04 am PT

    Road Rash was awesome.

  • King_Dodongo

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 6:40 am PT

    remade, deadkindg? there was only a copy-paste of the titles

  • winterblink

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 6:02 am PT

    That's a surprisingly nice list of games to include in one package. I admit, I'm borderline shocked to see it's EA doing it and it didn't end up as three separate collections with a ton of crappy filler.

    Personally as a 360 owner, I'd love to see some of those as Xbox Live Arcade titles. Syndicate with multiplayer Live support would be epic.

  • deadkingdg

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 6:01 am PT

    daqua_99
    Why would a SNES game be on the PSP??

    For the same reason that all FFs that were on Nintendo except III were remade on PS1?

  • danmp18

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 5:56 am PT

    Can we get a release on PS2 or Xbox please EA?

  • dryden555

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 5:37 am PT

    Road Rash -- oh yes.

    All 3 versions were great so I'm glad they included all 3

  • hittin

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 5:25 am PT

    Cool.

  • DarkJedi8_basic

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 4:15 am PT

    Meh...Compilations with 1, 2 and 3 versions of the same game is weak. The best one here is Mutant League Football.

  • P2L5NM

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 3:55 am PT

    ROAD RASH!!!!

  • ewjim

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 3:47 am PT

    Well, well, well, they try to "level up" this system with old games?! They positivly DON'T WANT TO WORK!!!

  • daqua_99

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 3:32 am PT

    Why would a SNES game be on the PSP??

  • Digital-Devil

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 1:30 am PT

    Most of these you can get on ROMS though...or on the Wii as downloads

  • EyeNixon

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 1:27 am PT

    Ultima is nice, but why the lackluster SNES version?

  • danny_dm_moore

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 1:22 am PT

    that comp would kick butt, havent played wing commander in years....

  • Digital-Devil

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 1:05 am PT

    Desert Strike was a great game on the Sega Gen...wont buy a PSP for it though

  • TryMe01

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 12:29 am PT

    "Shows how desperate the psp is getting when people get excited about decades old games... "

    How very true... have fun PSP users
    *looking back at shiny and well played DS Lite*

  • Sonicgod

    Posted Aug 15, 2006 12:21 am PT

    I played them all when they came out most of them are not that good.
    they forgot Syndicate genesis

  • SnuffDaddyNZ

    Posted Aug 14, 2006 11:53 pm PT

    Not everyone has played these decades old games, and Syndicate and the two Desert Strike games are still good games.

  • teknocack

    Posted Aug 14, 2006 11:11 pm PT

    First of all:

    " Zeromind_Eric
    Zeromind_Eric
    ZzzzzZZZZ......Road Rash would be cool though."

    Many more cool games than just Road Rash, my friend.

    To the story: Hey!!!!! Wing Commander was on the Sega CD also! I know, I beat it.

  • Timstuff

    Posted Aug 14, 2006 10:42 pm PT

    I love Wing Commander! But I wish they were porting it from the PC version, because that one is a lot better.

  • TheGamer4Life

    Posted Aug 14, 2006 10:39 pm PT

    Shows how desperate the psp is getting when people get excited about decades old games...

  • bossjimbob

    Posted Aug 14, 2006 10:35 pm PT

    EA needs to revitalize Archon. For Xbox Live Arcade (and PSP).

  • wok7

    Posted Aug 14, 2006 10:31 pm PT

    I thought EA siad the PSP was not fun and they'd rather go with the DS...

  • Strike009

    Posted Aug 14, 2006 9:57 pm PT

    aww....no mutant league hockey....

  • arathorn2nd

    Posted Aug 14, 2006 9:41 pm PT

    Syndicate without a mouse? No, thanks. Great games, anyway.

  • amorphis

    Posted Aug 14, 2006 9:41 pm PT

    WING COMMANDER!!!!!!!!

  • mrgokugf

    Posted Aug 14, 2006 9:37 pm PT

    final cash-ins for a failed competitor against the DS........the psp's underwhelming performance is sure to rub off on PS3 sales MHAA!!!!!!

  • UnknownPerson55

    Posted Aug 14, 2006 9:18 pm PT

    syndicate?! i remember playing that on an old 550 mac back in the day. i might buy a psp just for this collection game, road rash makes it even better.

  • Geneyuss5555

    Posted Aug 14, 2006 8:43 pm PT

    Buy it for Road Rash 1/2/3, and maybe EA will get its head out of street racings @** and make a game people actually want.

  • ketsuatama

    Posted Aug 14, 2006 8:36 pm PT

    This sounds great! Those older games may not have much eye candy value but they were good fun to play!

  • keyser27

    Posted Aug 14, 2006 8:21 pm PT

    Oh boy. Syndicate. Can we get a good compilation? I just threw up a little in my mouth.

  • nintendorocks

    Posted Aug 14, 2006 8:13 pm PT

    Sounds good. This seems true since they have the full list of games already. I can't wait.

  • sigma8

    Posted Aug 14, 2006 8:11 pm PT

    People played wing commander with a keyboard and mouse? I used a joystick. I don't know why they'd need to adapt the SNES version for that. All you need is an analog stick and some weapons and comm control buttons. Oh, and the afterburner, of course.

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